Fire broke out at Seacliff Mental Hospital on 8 December, 1942. Ward 5, which housed 39 women patients, was quickly reduced to ashes. The fire killed all but 2 of the 39 women and was the worst fire in New Zealand until Ballantyne’s fire, five years later. What happened? In 1884 the Seacliff Lunatic Asylum was […]
The fire in Christchurch’s prestigious department store was the deadliest in New Zealand’s history. When the fire began in a basement about 3.30 p.m., 250–300 people were shopping at Ballantynes, which had a staff of 458. The staff member who saw smoke coming from a stairwell asked a colleague to call the fire brigade. Tragically,
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On this 2nd day, the month of September, the year is 1666. The great fire of London. The people of London who had managed to survive the Great Plague in 1665 must have thought that the year 1666 could only be better, and couldn’t possibly be worse! Poor souls… they could not have imagined the new disaster
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In this article, it lists the people who died and on this 8th day of September, we remember them. “Also in the building was the editor of the Otago Witness, Robert WILSON and his family, as his wife owned a shop there. Of the twelve people who lost their lives, the Wilson family of Robert,
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